Verb a psychic who communes with the dead after a week in the wilderness, the scouts were really starting to commune with nature Noun He's living in a religious commune.
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Verb
There is little in the way of public land in that part of the world and the availability of places where folks are free to roam the country and commune with the natural world is disappearing. Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022 Here, Hepburn plays against her usual hyper, chipper manner, inviting us to commune with a soul torn between delight at her journey and regret at her unfulfilling life. Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 13 July 2022 In time his home, set back from the ocean, became a yogi’s mountaintop for artists, celebrities and passionate wine fans eager to commune with the master. Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 In the absence of real-life communion with fans at her shows, Amos learned to commune with the world around her in different ways. Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022 In time his home, set back from the ocean, became a yogi’s mountaintop for artists, celebrities and passionate wine fans eager to commune with the master. Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 Being able to commune with my auntie ancestors every day is incredible motivation.Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022 As Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook opened new avenues for artists to commune with fans, music-video aesthetics preserved a sense of stars as strange and unreachable (the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards looked like a Halloween party). Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022 In time his home, set back from the ocean, became a yogi’s mountaintop for artists, celebrities and passionate wine fans eager to commune with the master. Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
Noun
Their very existence revolves around a daily commune with nature, their routines dictated by the seasons. Lucy Sherriff, CNN, 7 Sep. 2022 There was that first January, when Wang opened what was then the only spot in Southern California where customers could drink coffee and commune with free-roaming, adoptable cats.San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022 The Northman sees Amleth commune with the astral projection of a mystic seer, fight a walking skeleton to claim a special sword, and chat to the disembodied head of an old friend. David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2022 Also consider Ari Aster's Midsommar, a horror movie that takes place in the idyllic setting of a Swedish commune, and still, something seriously sinister lurks around the corner. Evan Romano, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022 Are there Nephromyces species that cheat—that contain no bacteria of their own and instead mooch off the nutrients produced by the rest of the commune? Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 July 2022 Inspired by the worldwide success of his Chateau Miraval wines in Provence, Brad Pitt launched a Rosé champagne in 2020, Fleur de Miraval, which is produced in the neighboring commune of Mesnil-sur-Oger. Peter Mikelbank, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2022 There was only the dead end of the commune, or the default of the corporation. Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022 According to a recent United Nations news report, between July 8 and 17, more than 470 people were killed, injured or reported missing amid gang fights in the impoverished, densely populated commune of Cite Soleil in Haiti. Safire R. Sostre, Essence, 29 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English, to share, receive Communion, from Anglo-French communer, cummunier, from Late Latin communicare, from Latin — see communicate
Noun
French, alteration of Middle French comugne, from Medieval Latin communia, from Latin, neuter plural of communis